Emotion

Somerset, Fiona

doi:10.1017/cco9781139020886.022

The Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism 2012

DOI: 10.1017/cco9781139020886.022

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Emotion

Fiona Somerset¹

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“…See, in addition to the sources already cited, Santha Bhattacharji, “Tears and Screaming: Weeping in the Spirituality of Margery Kempe.” in Holy Tears: Weeping in the Religious Imagination (); Piroska Nagy, “Religious Weeping as Ritual in the Medieval West,” (); Fiona Somerset, “Emotion” in The Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism ().…”

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The Object of His Heart: Subjectivity and Affect in Mystic Texts

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2016

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This essay examines how attention to affect in mystic texts complicates notions of subjectivity by highlighting the relational effects of affect. Noting that recent pre‐modern scholarship has favored the history of emotion over affect studies, this essay turns instead to an investigation of the ways that affect can be discerned in historical and literary texts. Shifting attention to the way affect travels between author, text, and reader allows me to problematize the formulation of the mystic/woman as a hyper‐emotional subject and move towards an investigation of how the cultivation and repetition of affect contribute to the formation of relational communities.

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The History of Emotions and Middle English Literature

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2016

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Critics have long addressed questions of affect, feeling and emotional expression in Middle English literature, but only in recent years has their interest begun to take theoretical form under the rubric of the ‘history of emotions’. Current critical attitudes to the study of emotions in the past have been shaped substantially by the work of historians, whose focus on emotion in documentary sources has been influenced in turn by research in the fields of sociology, anthropology, psychology, linguistics and, increasingly, the cognitive sciences. How might existing methodologies situating emotions historically drive new approaches in Middle English literary studies? This article contends that existing analyses of Middle English literature relating to affective discourses might fruitfully be brought into conversation with new multidisciplinary forms of research into past emotions. We survey current critical trends in both the history of emotions and in Middle English literature. Case studies of two late Middle English literary texts, the anonymous Sir Orfeo and Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, show how the last fifty years of scholarship has addressed emotions in Middle English literature. We conclude by suggesting future directions that might be taken up by critics of medieval English literary texts and genres to develop further the relationship between literary studies and the history of emotions.

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Emotion

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The Object of His Heart: Subjectivity and Affect in Mystic Texts

The Object of His Heart: Subjectivity and Affect in Mystic Texts

The History of Emotions and Middle English Literature

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